Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-12-10
THE SOUTH AMERICAN eAUcHo.

THE SOUTH AMERICAy GAUCHO.
The Goucho (growcho) of the pam
pas is the most interesting character on
the continent He is the descendant
of the aristocratic Spanish don and the
woman of the Guarani race, a species
unknown to any other part of the
world, whose nearest likeness is the
Bedouin of Arabia He is at once the
most indolent and the most active of
human beings, for when he is not in the
saddle, devouring space on the back of
q tireless broncho, he is sleeping in
apathetic Incidence among his mistresses
or gambling with his chnms. Half
savage and half courtier, the Gaucho is
as courteous as he is cruel, and will
thrum an air on the native mandolin
with the same ease and 7ao,1chalance as
he will murder a fellow-being or
slaughter a steer. He recognizes no
law but ms own will and tLe unwritten
code of the cattle range, and all viola
tons of this code are punished by ban
ishment or death. Whoever offends
him must fight or fly, and his vengeance
is as enduring as it is vigilant. He
never shoots, or strikes with his first,
and his only weapons are the short
knife, which is never absent from his
hand or his belt, the lasso, and the
"bc1as, implements of his trade, often.
sive and defensive. A fight between
Gauchos is always to the death, and it
is the duty of him who kills to see that
his victim is decently buried, and the
widow and orphans cared for. The
widow, if she pleases him, becomes his
mistress, and the orphans grow up to be
Gauchos under his tutelage. As super
stitious as Hindoo, peaceable when
sober, bpt regardless of God and man
when drunk, as brave as lion, as active
as panther, with an endurance equal
to any test, faithful to his friends, as
implacable as fate to any one who Of
tends him, he has exercised powerful
influence upon the destiny Of the Ar
gentine Republic, and retarded civil
cation until overcome by an increased
immigration of foreigners. -Witiiam E.
Curtis. IN Harper's Magazine.
4n iGeIi Birthday Present.
1t consists of a small, low, white painted
screen, with leaves. 1t is simply frame
like an ordinary clothes horse; the first or
top half can be paneled each side with
Japanese paper, or else have canvas light
" fastened to it, and covered with white
enameled paint. When dry, spray of
yellow roses, with brown foliage, should
be stretched across one side, with some yell
low honeysuckes on the other. The lower
half of the screen is made by hanging
curtain of soft yellow silk or plush all
the way along each division, and this
makes a valuable little corner in room,
while shelf can be aLded, if desired, just
behind the painting, enameled with Aspin-
alPs enamel paint.
A nice cover fot little odd and end
table upon which old china OF brio a-brac
are displayed, can be made of stamped vel
vet, edged with dark lace, and should be
made to fit the table.
Sofa cushions are of endless variety, and
were never more popular.
When one tires OF a chair, instead of hav-
ing it reupholstered, a rug is bought and
thrown over it. Ladies who know the
charm Of such an arrangement are con-
stantly on the lookout for remnants of
heavy brocade and raw silk. They are
simply hemmed and careles, ly fixed over
chair or divan, long hat pins being used to
hold them in place.
Windows are hung with gay celored
silk. and as finish very sheer silk tissues
are used in place of the more delicate lace
curtains.
The lambreguin will not be used on
mantels this year. Those who study the
progress of taste as led by interior decora-
TORS are putting down the cold marble fire
shelves and substituting tiles or hardwood.
The marbles that remain are draped with
silk, plush, or brocaded sheets.
Safe, permanent and complete are the
cures of bilious and intermittent diseases,
made by Prn-kly Ash Bitters. Dyspepsia,
general debility. habitual constipation, liver
and kidney complaints are speed ly eradi-
Gated from the system. 1t disinferts, cleans
es and eliminates all malaria. Health and
vigor are obtained more Re adily and perma-
nently by thesuse of this great natural anti
dots than by any other remedy, heretofore
known. As blood purifier and tonic it
brings health. renewed energy and vitality
TO a worn and diseased body.
Madam Laborde, better known as Sister
Bathilde, nurse in the Beauvais hospital,
has been decorated with the order of the